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  2. Street light interference phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    A street lamp mounted on a bracket and column A high pressure sodium street light fixture. Street light interference, sometimes called high voltage syndrome, is the claimed ability of individuals to turn street lights or outside building security lights on or off when passing near them. [1]

  3. Pilot-controlled lighting - Wikipedia

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    When either type of system is activated, a 15-minute countdown starts, after which the lights turn off. While the lights are on, whenever a lighting command is issued, whether it changes the lighting intensity or not, the fifteen-minute countdown is reset. At some airfields, the lights may flash once to warn pilots that the lights are about to ...

  4. Will-o'-the-wisp - Wikipedia

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    The collected light from the eaten eyes gave "Boitatá" its fiery gaze. Not really a dragon but a giant snake (in the native language, boa or mboi or mboa). In Argentina and Uruguay, the will-o'-the-wisp phenomenon is known as luz mala (evil light) and is one of the most important myths in both countries' folklore. This phenomenon is quite ...

  5. Plan to turn off most street lights paused - AOL

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    A council has postponed a decision on whether to turn most of Oxfordshire's street lights off overnight so it can hear more views. Oxfordshire County Council operates about 60,000 lights but ...

  6. Part 1 (True Detective) - Wikipedia

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    As the sun sets, the entire herd of caribou suddenly become erratic and leap to their deaths off a cliff. At the Tsalal Arctic Research Station, a team of scientists go on with their daily routines. Suddenly, a senior researcher named Raymond Clark has a seizure and declares "she’s awake" before the lights turn off.

  7. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    turn signals, i.e. lights on a car that indicate the direction about to be taken *(UK: indicators) block (n.) a building (block of flats, office block) a solid piece of something to obstruct (basketball) a blocked shot, or (plural) in the low post position near the basket, as in "on the blocks"

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  9. Kerosene lamp - Wikipedia

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    Flat-wick lamps have the lowest light output, center-draft round-wick lamps have 3–4 times the output of flat-wick lamps, and pressurized lamps have higher output yet; the range is from 8 to 100 lumens. A kerosene lamp producing 37 lumens for 4 hours per day for a month (120 hours) consumes about 3 litres (6.3 US pt; 5.3 imp pt) of kerosene.